Collection: Kwame Dawes

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 but grew up in Jamaica where he attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona. He studied and taught in New Brunswick on a Commonwealth Scholarship to Canada. Since 1992 he has been teaching at the University of South Carolina. He is Professor of English on the Columbia campus of that institution. His critical articles on literature, theater and film have been published widely. He is an actor playwright and producer, an accomplished storyteller, broadcaster and was the lead singer in Ujamaa, a reggae band. To date, Kwame Dawes has seen produced fifteen of his plays and he has acted in, directed or produced several of these productions.